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English
Etymology
1921, puck + handling.
Noun
puck-handling (uncountable)
- (ice hockey) The ability to control the puck; stickhandling.
1921 March 12, Boston Daily Globe, page 6:Dazzling puck handling by the visitors, but college men break up swift attacks. [headline]
1965 May 15, Kingston Whig-Standard, page 9:[…] Flyers dominated the game with superior skating, checking, passing and puck-handling.
Further reading
- “puck-handling” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Stefan Dollinger, Margery Fee, editors (2017), “puck-handling, n.”, in DCHP-2 Online: A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, 2nd edition, Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia, →OCLC.